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You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

For every thought and emotion wasted away on the petty, the inconsequential, and the irrelevant, we are on step further behind on what we originally set out to do.

Our time is finite, and so is our bandwidth. If we are not going to think about what it is that we’re supposed to do, at least spend it on the things that bring us joy—not misery.